Compliance Webinar Series - Money Laundering Offences & Suspicious Activity Reporting

Laurence Howland, the Director of Risk and Compliance at Buckles Solicitors LLP and How Compliance, will conduct a series of 8 webinars focusing on compliance regulations. The webinars aim to enhance attendees' understanding of compliance standards.

Participants can choose to attend all sessions, select 4 sessions, or pick individual sessions. This flexible approach allows attendees to customise their learning experience. Each webinar, spanning an hour, will zoom in on particular compliance-related issues.

Tuesday 18th February 2025 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm - Money Laundering Offences and Suspicious Activity Reporting

This session will cover the main money laundering offences and how they might affect law firms, when and how to prepare a Suspicious Activity Report and how your mandatory reporting obligations interact with the rules on confidentiality and Legal Professional Privilege.

Main contents,

• Main offences
• Reporting obligations
• Drafting an effective SAR
• LPP considerations
• Status of LSAG guidance

The full webinar programme and costs:

Laurence Howland is the Director Risk and Compliance of Buckles Solicitors LLP, with overall responsibility for the firm’s Anti-Money Laundering and Regulatory Compliance, and Director of How Compliance Ltd providing training and consultancy services to firms across the regulated sector.

Laurence spent three years as a Senior Financial Investigator with the Solicitors Regulation Authority; prior to this, he served for thirty years with HM Revenue & Customs (previously HM Customs & Excise) as an accredited financial investigator leading criminal investigation teams dealing with money laundering, restraint and confiscation cases. Between 2010 and 2014, he was Fiscal Crime Liaison Officer appointed to the British Embassy in Beijing. He has spoken and written extensively on Informal Value Transfer Systems and underground money movements from the Far East and has given expert witness evidence on this subject. He has designed and delivered AML and financial crime training and guidance for a wide range of clients, including the Law Society and LexisNexis.

In 2021 Laurence was awarded an MSc in Financial Investigation with Distinction from the University of Central Lancashire. He was also presented with the prestigious Martin Kenney Award for Outstanding Contribution to Financial Investigation. 

E: Laurence.howland@howcompliance.co.uk